Spinning-machine



" (Model?) J. H. ALLEN. Spinning-Machine."

No. 227,873. Pate nted Ma -rhsas, imam-maximum, wnsmuaron 0 c PATENT OFFICE.

J OHE H. ALLEN, OF FRANKFOBT, WEST VIRGINIA.

SPINNING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 227,873, dated May 25, 1880.

Application filed March 5, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. ALLEN, of Frankfort, Mineral county, State of West Virginia, am the inventor of an Improved Spinning-Machine, of which'the following is a full,

- clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a spinning-machine suitable to be operated by hand-power; and it consists in the combination of parts, hereinafter particularly set forth, and arranged to operate as specified. v

Figure 1 is a view, in perspective, of a spinning-machine embodying my improvements, and shows the parts arranged in position for the operation of spinning. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing the parts arranged in position to allow a bobbin or spool to be wound with yarn or thread.

A is the standard or base of the machine. Upon this base is fixed the screw-clamp A, as shown, by means of which the machine may be secured at pleasure upon the edge of a table or other convenient support.

Upon one end of the base is fixed the upright post B, in the side of which is out or formed the dovetail channel I). In this channel is fitted, and arranged to slide therein on the longitudinal line of the base, the block b, said block being held in place in said channel by the key Upon the outer side of this block, on a suitable stud, arm, or shaft, is the driving-Wheel 11 said wheel being furnished with a crank-handle, b, as shown. By means of this arrangement of parts the driving-wheel is given an adjustment horizontally in the longitudinal line of the base A.

In the upper face of the base, and across the same, at the end opposite to the post B, is out or formed the dovetail channel or way a. Into this channel or way is fitted to slide the plate or block 0, and said plate is held in place by the key 0, as shown. Upon one end of this plate 0 is a post or upright, c, and in suitable recesses therein are the pulleys c and 0 one near the upper and one near the lower end of said post, and arranged in relation to each other and the driving-wheel b as hereinafter set forth.

Upon the opposite end of the plate 0, on a pivot-post, d, is mounted the frame 01, in which is the spindle D and its operating-pulley d as shown.

(ModeL) The pulleys c and c are so mounted and 5 arranged, with their axes inclined to the perpendicular line of the post 0, that the belt E, passing from the driving wheel b will be guided to the pulley on the spindle at the opposite end of the plate 0. I find that a very 6o oonvenientmode of thus arranging these guidepulleys c and 0 upon inclined axes is by means of the rod 0 pivoted to the post 0 at 0 and bent toward the driving wheel during the length or portion forming the axis of the upper pulley, c and then reversely bent away from said wheel for the portion that is the axis of the pulley 0 the free end of said rod engaging a catch on the side of the post at c, and being thus held. in place. By this means the pulleys c and 0 may be easily and conveniently unshipped .at any time, while their perfect adjustment as guide-pulleys can be accomplished by a greater or less curve in the rod 0 I I 7 5 It is evident that the parts may be arranged for the operation of spinning as seen in Fig.

1, the end of the plate 0 carrying the spindle being extended from the base, so that the operator, while turning the driving-wheel with one hand, may very readily feed the spindle with the other, the parts being in the most convenient position for this purpose, and that the plate C may be reversed on the base A, as

in Fig. 2, and the spindle-frame swung on its 8 5 pivot, so that by the use of a shorter belt, running direct from the drivin g-wheel to the spindle-pulley, the parts will be brought into position where the winding of a bobbin or spool placed on the spindle may be most conveniently 9o accomplished.

The adjustment of the wheel b on the post B permits the belt to be tightened or slackened.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the base A, having the way a, the plate 0, arranged therein, the driving-wheel b its shaft, and means for adjusting the same longitudinally relative to said base, upright c, guide-pulleys c and c pivoted 10o frame 01, spindle D, and pulley d all constructed and arranged to operate as described.

JOHN HERMAN ALLEN.

Witnesses:

J. T. GHADWIGK, SAMUEL CRAWFORD. 

